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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1946
Page
5
Police search for a teenage bandit masked and armed who tried to hold up Mrs Beatrice Castillo at 107 Kline Street Sunday night. The woman screamed, forcing the assailant to flee toward the opposite direction as she neared her home after alighting a bus. She believes the boy is local.
Funeral services for Mrs Anne Mae Arnold 47 will be at Alamo funeral home at 10 a m Tuesday. She died from a shooting at 115 South Mesquite Saturday night. Interment follows at Mission Burial Park with Chaplain A Vaughan officiating. Her husband, who rang for an ambulance and drove her to Robert B Green Hospital, was questioned by police.
Willie Coleman of 980 East Crockett Street was booked early Monday for operating a taxi without a license and for lacking a taxi meter. Deputy cab inspector A. Ture-Rane arrested him in the 100 block of Glorietta Street after attempting to locate the cab’s owner.
A suitcase with clothes and a bag of soiled linen were taken from a car in the 1500 block of Main Avenue. Victim Jack R. Glove Sr of 339 Schley Avenue reported the loss Monday with a value of $102. police noted related tool thefts by car prowlers nearby.
Fred Cozad was appointed fulltime secretary of the newly formed San Antonio Builders-Employers association. The group was created to handle questions arising between local builders and their workers.
Eight new cases of measles were reported Monday by the communicable disease division of the city health department, bringing the year’s total to 92. The report recalls that last year at a comparable time only 10 cases had been recorded.
Austell Scroggins faces trial for allegedly killing Iva Scroggins. Other murder cases set this week include Musebia Estrada for the pistol slaying of Guadalupie Leal on September 10, Juan Garza of Converse for Luis Rios murder on October 13, and Robert Desmukes for a fatal October 27 incident.
The revival of Three Little Fishes appears in Paramount’s comedy incident in To Each His Own starring Olivia de Havilland. The piece frames a nostalgic moment as part of the film’s light entertainments.
Field marshal Erhard Milch testified before the international military tribunal that Hitler became abnormal and differed from prior statements. Milch said Goering ordered halting four engine night bomber production in 1937, leaving no bombers for 1939 night attacks. He noted air staff recommended suspending the program to save funds.
Abuses at Hakodate POW camp in Hokkaido surface in legal filings. Yasutake Sakakibara former second lieutenant, charged with beating Merchant Seaman John Knudsen of Seamen's Church Institute New York. Kyome Imai charged with beating Pvt. Michael Daly. Cases brought by Allied headquarters legal section.
Police report shows a juvenile, arrested by Officer C. D. McCulloch, clearing up the theft of three sapphires and two other stones from the Justice of R. S. Rountree in the American Insurance building. The stones valued at 32.50 were found on the juvenile and returned to the owner. the youth was turned over to Mrs. Dora Davenport, county juvenile officer.
Jace B. Crosby was rehired by the county Monday as assistant chief accountant earning 299 538 per month after returning from military service. His appointment was approved by the two district judges.
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Gray, 62, who died at Lavernia Sunday, are set for 3 p.m. Tuesday at Riehe Funeral Home with Rev. J W Darnell officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Cemetery.
In Yokohama on March 11 Lt Kiyo ichi Mori former Omine camp commander testified that a civilian guard beat Capt Harold M Imerman of Saginaw Michigan and subjected him to cruelties. Mori said he reprimanded the guard but took no further action.
Lt. Raymond Osburn of Camden, N J, prosecutor in a war crimes trial here, said several requests were made to the Russians to turn over top Manchurian POW officials, but no replies were received. Toru Miki, former superintendent of the Hoten camp at Mukden, pleaded innocent to a charge of unmercifully beating American prisoners, one dying.
Budapest March 11 Hungarian Nazi leader Ferenc Szalasi and six ministers of the occupation era face execution today or tomorrow after U.S. war crimes trials in Nuremberg rejected a Hungarian offer to let Szalasi and his confederates testify.
New York March 11 A $100000 contribution to the United Jewish Appeal was announced by John D Rockefeller Jr in a letter to William Rosenwald national chairman of the campaign to raise $100000000 for Jewish refugees overseas needs and Palestine The gift boosts fund raising for the drive to aid Jew ish refugees and related efforts funded by the appeal.
Lt. Edward C. Gibson salvage officer invites interested bidders to contact him at Randolph field by phone letter or in person to receive invitations to bid on salvage material offered for sale.
County Commissioner Robert Uhr was authorized Monday to sell at auction two strips totaling .155 acre between the Austin highway and Kampmann Street near Elkwood Avenue. The sale is to be within ten days.
Naval personnel and officers from multiple units are listed with ranks and addresses. The compiled roster includes G Villesea coxswain at 02 Victoria street, Gabriel Alvarado Ste at 609 Chu pederas street, Samuel Lee White PM3c, Joe Columbus BM1c, and many others. The document appears to catalog separations and home addresses for Navy and Army personnel named in a single-era roster.
Funeral services are set for Lt. Carlton P. Smith Jr., 24, of Kelly Field, who died in a B 29 crash near Albuquerque last Thursday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Porter Loring Chapel, with Chaplain Waide Hopkins officiating. Interment will be at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. He was the son of Col. and Mrs. Carlton P. Smith of San Antonio, attended West Point, and is survived by his widow Elizabeth McIntosh Smith and sister Mrs. Gerald Daniell of Washington, D.C.
Under county agent office and chamber of commerce auspices along with the city health department two films are shown for San Antonio milk shed dairymen. W D Pirie head of the milk division announced Monday list of showings across Sutherland Springs Floresville Jourdanton Medina Somerset and Macdona with dates and times.
Cristobal G Espinosa of Route 2 Floresville pleaded guilty in Criminal District court to murder without malice. Judge W W McCrory sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary for the death of Alejantro Salazar who was beaten to death with a hammer on January 5.
Frank Garwin idlway 15 died Monday at his home 211 Betty Jean street A retired civil service worker he lived in San Antonio 35 years and was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Porter Loring chapel the Rev Francis M Davis officiating In popular will be in San Jose cemetery
An invitation was extended to Mayor Gus 8B Mauermann to attend the Citizens Conference on Planning in Dallas April 21 24 sponsored by the American Planning and Civic Association. Mayor Woodall Rodgers of Dallas notes Mauermann has not decided whether to attend.
Dr. Lewis C. Hobbing of the city health department will address the San Antonio Association of Motor Carriers at a luncheon on Safety Through Health. The event Tuesday at the Plaza Hotel is announced by executive secretary BE. Prats with Carl Stromberger as program chairman.
Allied intelligence traces a vast NKVD run system of correctional camps in Ukraine White Russia the Caucasus and central Asia housing prisoners from 10 months to 10 years with no trials. The map notes labor outputs in factories mines timber and transport and says feeding depends on work performed while guards come from the internal army.
Chicago March 11 The War Assets Administration announced a sale of nearly four million knitted pairs of shorts. Eligible buyers are apparel dealers or federal or state institutional buyers. The sale runs for 15 days at prices allowing retail sale to consumers at about $1.00 per pair.
James Mills 26 of 814 Menchaca Street was recovering from a forehead cut Monday after being struck with a bottle at a bar on Probandt Street in Los Angeles. Police investigated the incident.
Charles E. Beauchamp former First National bank teller is bound over on a $2500 continuing bond before U S Commissioner Paul Lockhart. He faces charges of misappropriating 375 of bank funds on January 10.
The board of education for the San Antonio Independent School District will meet Tuesday in the board room.
AUSTIN March 1 The case to remove Harry Henge Crozier as chairman of the state unemployment compensation commission to a Travis county district court will likely be heard in San Marcos tomorrow. Henry Kyle Hays county attorney said he would not oppose a plea of privilege seeking change of venue from Hays county. Crozier’s attempt to serve followed the senate’s January confirmation session failing to confirm him, an act ruled invalid by Attorney General Grover Sellers.
The program features Nover and Eccles discussing inflation dangers postwar. They warn about idle funds, call for continued price controls and rationing, and urge production growth to curb money supply expansion. They advocate debt reduction and selling long-term securities to nonbanks to slow inflation.
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